Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome's American Academy, Lavin revealed five new sculptures that he attributed to Bernini: a small boy with dragon, two marble putti in the Barberini chapel in the Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle, plus two portrait busts from Confraternita della Pietá (a 17th century charity hospital demolished in 1937), long forgotten in the cellar of an adjacent church. Each is stamped with the baroque characteristic of the human presence hyperpersonified, with anatomy in strain, gestures exaggerated, details made into drama...
...tiger in the Ivy. Two weeks ago, Princeton's Tigers pulled off the coup of the season against previously undefeated, No. 3-ranked North Carolina. Bad weather forced cancellation of their flight south; so the Tigers rode a railroad coach for 101½ hours, arrived in Chapel Hill at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the game. They sank 65.5% of their shots to win 91-81. Coupled with last week's victory over Harvard, that was enough to earn Princeton No. 7 position in the Associated Press rankings, No. 9 in the United Press International poll...
Though most of the college's trustees are Presbyterians, as are two-thirds of the faculty and 46% of the students, chapel attendance is voluntary, and Christianity, in so far as it comes up in the core program, is taught in an ecumenical spirit. "Our task is not to make Presbyterians, or even Christians," says President Kadel. The only guarantee the college makes is that the "Christian faith will have a forthright hearing...
...bronze panels for the Gates of Paradise were torn off and badly damaged, and four of the Baptistery's mosaic floors were washed away. Immense quantities of water, mud and heating oil, which polluted the water when the floods burst open storage tanks, inundated both the Pizza Chapel and the Horne Museum. The waters battered the lower portion of Giotto's Campanile so severely that it was feared the tower might collapse...
Although Napier's chapel and academic religion at Stanford are independent, the revitalization of both has begun to have a synergistic effect: students of religion have felt compelled to express their new concern about faith in worship, while students inspired by worship plan to enroll in religion courses. Concludes Brown: "Faith and learning can exist in partnership with each other: they need not be antithetical...